Session 24 - Ryota Kanai (Araya Inc.) - Qualia and Symmetry: A Mathematical Framework For Understanding the Qualitative Nature of Consciousness

Are qualitative differences in conscious experience, like vision versus audition, shaped by the intrinsic structure of neural networks? This talk proposes a mathematical framework using symmetry groups and equivariance to characterize these differences. This approach offers a new path for linking consciousness to neural architecture.